Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Trends on Tuesday - 3 ways to include a little stamping on a page

I am guilty of having a lovely selection of stamps at home and not always digging into them when I create a page, so I am challenging myself to get them out and use them!

I used some of the beautiful Et Cetera papers from BoBunny for this page - you can find them here. I chose one of the patterned papers for my background and it already has lots of ink and images that are stamped on, but I still added a few more!

Using a grid background stamp - I used a clear acrylic stamp, not mounted on a block, and you curve it as you apply the ink to the page so you don't get sharp edges. I used some tea dye distress ink so it would look like part of the page as well, but the rolling makes it look like that image was always there.

To complement the post marks I had a little round postmark stamp that says 'Remember This', so with black archival ink (as I was going to stamp partially on the photo) I stamped in the bottom corner of my photo - partly on the photo and partly on my papers.

Word stamps - there are so many beautiful word stamps which you can see here but also check out the clear sets too for extra words here, pennants are a really good way to add words onto your own page, I used my words for the bunting on my kite.